… with Alf Garnett and Suzan Farmer.

Review:

Simon Templar meets a young American woman named Sue Inverest while on vacation in Italy. During their tour of the coliseum, Templar is knocked out and Sue is kidnapped. Templar learns that Sue is the daughter of an American Governor (Indiana, I think). The head kidnapper has a brother on death row in Governor Inverest’s state. He wants his brother’s sentence commuted in exchange for Sue’s life. Being The Saint, Templar intercedes to help secure Sue’s release.

I’m going to have to disagree with the only other review (as of 3/29/17) on IMDb for The Latin Touch. I really enjoyed this episode. The tension in the episode came through for me. This is television, so you just know everything will be alright in the end, but the tension was still there. I could feel the governor’s pain as he struggled with what to do – keep a killer locked-up or save his daughter. And, the trick Templar plays on the baddie was a pretty sweet scene.

I suppose the fact that there was someone working for the mob from the inside was a given, it was still fun to watch events unfold. And, once again, I’m impressed with the acting. After just two episodes, Roger Moore continues to be something of a revelation to me. In the supporting cast, Alexander Knox, as usual, gives a good performance. And Warren Mitchell is an out-and-out scene stealer. His cabbie, Marco Di Cesari, is a hoot.

(1143) Lovely day out there. Not. (1207)

 

10. Enjoy your readymeal for lunch

9. On Troons

8. Sounds as if British Transport is all sorted

7. OAPs keep the high street alive

(0923)(1007)

 

Unfortunate male traits, especially today

You Tube is flooded with this sort of thing, not all from Pearl or JedBila:

Voice then cracks. The saddest part, to me, is how she ever got to be like this. I don’t mean standard characteristics such as men basically don’t care, women are always right, even when wrong … these things transcend eras … I mean that she was equipped with almost no people skills due to upbringing and education, also the hypergamy and fickleness, always looking for a better deal, complete godlessness.

At this point, I stopped and thought that YT is flooded with these, made by women, with the old MGTOW vlogs as well. I was thinking … whatever happened to all the older YTs such as Kezia Noble advising men (simps mainly) how to attract a woman … there was a flood of videos by women advising men. Much harder finding these today … and I did try, because I wanted this post to be the other side … things wrong with men.

I searched and found a few and here, in no particular order, were many of the faults of modern men:

• Lacks ambition, purpose, vision, a project
• Irresponsible
• Vain
• Needing constant validation
• Manipulative and controlling
• Lacks empathy
• Stingy with money
• Lacks a sense of humour which is not cruel or sardonic
• Lacks masculinity … overly feminine, in touch with feelings
• Lacks confidence
• Can’t admit he’s wrong
• Loses temper, goes mental quickly, even violent
• Only wants N1 with a female … these days maybe not even a female
• Fishes for compliments (validation)
• Not in shape, physically
• Unhygienic, untrimmed etc.
• Mansplains, manspreads
• More susceptible to illness
• Uses corny chat-up lines, rather than truly conversing out of interest
• Lacks moral compass, fibre, consistency, lacks any godliness

It went on, the list and the immediate thought was that many of those were women’s faults too … some were definitely men’s though.

Next thought was that both the women’s vlogs slamming women and those slamming men were contrary to my personal agenda in the matter … which is trying to do what I can to bring western men and women together again in sanctified marriage, in order to get to work on each other and procreate.

Therefore, these sorts of lists, vlogs, podcasts, posts, are hardly helpful. To my mind, my agenda is a very tall order in 2025. But we press on.

 

That 48 minute look at WW2 shelters turned out to be fairly dull, to the point one commenter asked if it would be possible to have it with a human, not an AI voice. Jago, who is unfortunately of the soft left, indulged in some Wokery in a couple of vlogs and this below has an issue shared with Ruairidh …

The sound quality is poor. In Ruairidh’s case, many commenters pointed this out to him … in Jago’s case, it comes out “tinnier” than it used to, making it borderline unlistenable … but just sufficient for some interesting subject matter.

(0621) Morning all … dark out there. (0754)

 

5. Ode to a meathead

4. No men in women’s spaces

3. The limits of intelligence

2. DAD at 1121

So Macron has a appointed a new PM. Sebastien Lecaru.

That should read RE-appointed. Less than a week after he resigned, having been PM for 47 days [the shortest time for a PM in the 5th Republic], we have the same Wally as before. I predict that this time he will not last more than 7 days, not 47.

Macron is toast……..

1. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/has-kate-gone-woke.html

(1733) Evening all.

 

20. Moosh corner

19. Smoke of Shaitan

18. Rachel the financial genius

17. Just a cod piece for readers

… don’t want to mollycoddle y’all:

16. Karoline reports

1. What was Esso called before Esso?
2. What was it originally called?
3. Which state?
4. Which anti-trust act was passed in 1890?
5. What generic name was given to journos like Ida Tarbell
6. The original firm was bought by whom in 1987?
7. With which nation did S.O. war profiteer?

 

Cunning plan is to attack by Triffid now, by the Saint on the weekend.

TRIFFIDS BE HERE

1963 version of The Day of the Triffids

A couple of others on that page too.

(1140) Afternoon all, eventually. Dull grey out there. (1349)

 

15. The highly politicised Nobel Peace Prize

14. Chinese spies and civil servants

13. TDS report

12. Rotten Boroughs

11. There are still legacy issues with X

There’s another issue at X which cannot be laid at Elon’s door and that’s predators. Technique is that they first pretend to be either a fellow pundit of standing or else a Rubio, Vivek or even Elon himself but the account name always differs slightly from the main account. Let’s say the main account is Joe Bloggs 1234, this one will have the same header pic, profile pic, same or similar data.

They come in via DM, always, saying how good to find a fellow patriot, we chat, then comes the crypto come-on … do I have this code or that. When it’s a young female, it’s usually sexual, either for real or Boris in Moscow using a hot pic. Two ladies did seem to be real … Katie Pavlich and Hillary Klug the dancer.

The ladies are usually ok except this latest was by someone pretending to be Wendy Patterson. It started in a feminine way, but yes, I was suspicious as “she” asked where I was from, whereas a lady has usually checked that out. At that point, it suddenly went male, asking if I had such and such crypto code.

I always say pls check out my profile blurb about money and sex. Bye.

……

Ah, it seems to have taken off, thanks to Wendy. She, Laura Loomer, Lara, Alex and Kobie downunder, Emerald, Eva Vlaar, Charlotte Gill here … these are real headkickers, good gals, go for the jugular.

Slight programming issue, now my delivery is here, coffee made and I sat down to look at the short feature, usually around 0815 but late today.

Issue was I knew I had a Saint episode left, two actually, at a pinch but in came IYE to save us again … good, that bit done for today and the weekend. But the shorts were not great … Jago on Locomotion was one, also a long (48 mins) on fallout shelters of WW2 … too long for this short timeslot.

Jago I’m thinking is running out of ideas, as is Ruairidh, plus the motorway man has dropped off, plus Chris Spargo … I had a think about running these two again, did my homework and was surprised. A few commenters had asked … are these two married?

The cynical would say the flame dies and the chemistry ends but with these two dancers from France, it seems not to have died. They won championships in 2017/18, they actually married in 2023, I’ve run some earlier dancing by them in the last few days and though they’re great imho, there are only so many things a pair can do within the format … her upside down walking is one … but her overall “infectious niceness” is so endearing in our currently troubled times and he’s to be commended too … holding up his end well … kudos to the chap.

Quite agree … I recall playing this some years back actually. She’s obviously happy, he’s on clover … what’s not to like?

And as performers … we want neverending chemistry, no? In film, bands, whatever. Thomas Audon and Sophie Allaf. So yes, a bit OTT with the “joined up dancing” of late but I find it charming … sorry, sorry.

Well well well … look what I just found: